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| Teaching Tips: Current Events |
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Description:
| These sites provide ideas for integrating current events via newspaper, magazines, and television into the curriculum. There are suggested ideas on teaching current events, warm-up activities, lesson plans, quizzes, and news resources. There are links to eThemes Resources on News Sites for Elementary Students and Newspapers: Classroom Activities. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Current Events
This page has suggested ideas, activities, and lesson plans for incorporating current events into the curriculum. NOTE: This site contains ads.
Twenty-Five Great Ideas for Teaching Current Events
Here are 25 ideas for teaching current events in the classrooms. Includes news resources.
This Week in Newsy
This site has lesson plans written by classroom teachers. The lesson plans include a video, learning activities, and more.
Detroit News in Education: Teacher Resources
This online news site has downloadable lesson plans by grade level and geography quizzes based on major news events. The site is updated weekly.
Teaching and Learning with New York Times
Here are different activities for introducing news in the classroom such as using graphic organizers, games, discussion starters, word play, and maps.
Current Events
This site compiles resources on current events organized by topic. Includes lesson plans and games. NOTE: This site includes ads.
Newseum: Events and Education
Here are lesson plans that help students learn about different types of news and how people consume news.
The Educator's Reference Desk: Current Events Lesson Plans
Here are lesson plans to go along with current events.
How to Integrate Newspapers into the Social Studies Curriculum
Follow the links for teaching social studies using current events.
Teaching Debate: Thoughts on Current Issues in the Classroom
Read this blog to get some ideas about incorporating current issues in debates. NOTE: This site contains links to external sites.
eThemes Resource: News Sites for Elementary Students
These sites have news, sports, and weather that are geared toward elementary students. Includes current news, games, videos, and quizzes. Included are links to eThemes resources on writing newspaper articles and producing newspapers.
eThemes Resource: Newspapers: Classroom Activities
These sites offer numerous ideas for using newspapers in the classroom. The suggested activities include using newspapers to teach concepts in subject areas such as language arts, social studies, and math. Includes information about media literacy skills. There are links to eThemes Resources on news sites for kids and news production.
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